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NotesWouldnât it be nice if you could link to specific bits of text on a Web page rather than forcing people following your links to scan the page for whatever piece of information youâre trying to convey? With full support from major browser manufacturers appearing late last year, the Web has finally caught up with hypertext theory from the previous century.FeedUnfurl
NotesI wrote code (in PHP) to import my old bookmarks. And you didnât misread that, itâs 28,000 links over the last 20 years. They come from my original links blog, and from Delicious, and from Instapaper, and from Twitter back when I backfilled those shared links into Pinboard, which I then backfilled into my link blog database. Itâs a lot of things, but really, itâs straightforward from a programming point of view. Itâs a simple POST to the REST API which Linkding provides by default. I have shared most of the code I wrote as a Gist in GitHub. It includes code in PHP to convert exported CSV from Instapaper to a JSON format that my poster code can use. And over the last 2 days and over many hours, every few seconds a link would be posted. And as of now, itâs finished.FeedEmbedUnfurl
NotesElon Musk confirmed that posts containing links in their main text are deprioritized on X in a revelation that renews criticism that the platform is restricting the visibility of and access to external sources of information.EmbedUnfurl
NotesI built Sill because I value the people in my social network, and I believe I can learn the most about the world by reading what they read and hearing what they have to say. Sill listens to them at scale and helps me understand the conversation. In the month or so Iâve been using it myself, Sill has completely changed my relationship to my social network.Unfurl
NotesI love linking out to other sites. The strength of the open web is in its many connections between nodesâŚthe more, the better. Links are the whole goddamned point of the web! I want to send people away from kottke.org to learn something new or have a chuckle and then come back the next day for more. The goal is connection, knowledge, and sharing â I proudly have no competitors in this endeavor, only collaborators. (This is just another sentence so that I can link to more folks who love to link.)FeedUnfurl
NotesHistorically, we could link to a certain part of the page only if that part had an ID. All we needed to do was to link to the URL and add the document fragment (ID). If we wanted to link to a certain part of the page, we needed to anchor that part to link to it. This was until we were blessed with the Text fragments!Unfurl
NotesUnfortunately, sometimes web developers try to get a bit too clever in creating their interfaces. What if I want something to look like a link but act like a button?FeedUnfurl
Notes"Thatâs because while I was watching the kids rolling down the grass slope on top of Parliament House, rev="canonical" started to gain some serious momentum, billing itself as a way to shorten URLs that âdoesnât hurt the Internet.â In my opinion, this is an interesting idea with an very unfortunate execution thatâs bad for the Web, and Iâm going to enumerate the reasons here. "FeedUnfurl
Notes"So there are clear benefits for both the service (low cost of entry, potentially easy profit) and the linker (the quick rush of popularity). But URL shorteners are bad for the rest of us.I feel that shorteners are bad for the ecosystem as a whole. But what can be done to improve the situation?"Unfurl
Notes"Consider Coover Links â links in which the start of a sentence lies in one side of the link while the end of the sentence lies at the other. Coover links are named for Robert Coover, the author of a short hypertext âHeart Suitâ (McSweeneyâs 16, 2005) written entirely in this fashion."FeedUnfurl
Notes"I'd much rather see your blog go quiet for weeks, months, or even years and then happily find the occasional post than just find links where I once expected to find your own original words."Unfurl
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You canât create a button | NCZOnline
Ubuntu Michigan Release Party wrap-up
mnotâs Web log: Counting the ways that rev="canonical" hurts the Web
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - REST API Design: Invent Media Types, Not Protocols and Understand the Importance of Hyperlinks
Mark Bernstein: Coover Links